- Opera singer.
- Pictured on a 2.84-euros Monaco commemorative postage stamp issued 21 June 2017. Performed several times with the Monte-Carlo Opera.
- Calvé was probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Époque.
- She started learning music in Paris from Mathilde Marchesi, a retired German mezzo-soprano and Manuel García.
- She spent her childhood at first in Spain with her parents, then in different convent schools in Roquefort and Tournemire (Aveyron).
- In 1892, she spent six months in Rome, studying under Domenico Mustafà, the last castrato head of the Sistine Chapel Choir, adding half an octave to the top of her range.
- Calvé had an international career, and she sang regularly at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and the Royal Opera House, London.
- Her voice is preserved in a number of recordings made between 1902 and 1920. These are available on CD transfers.
- Calvé developed an interest in the paranormal and was once engaged to the occult author Jules Bois.
- She trained herself in stage craft and gesture by closely observing Duse's performances.
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